Lily bulb (Baihe)
Lilium brownii var. viridulum Baker (Fam. Liliaceae)
Pharmaceutical Name: Bulbus Lilii
Botanical Name: 1. Lilium brownii var. viridulum Baker; 2. Lilium pumilum DC.; 3. Lilium
lancifolium Thunb.
Common Name: Lily bulb
Source of Earliest Record: Shennong
Bencao Jing
Part Used & Method for Pharmaceutical
Preparations:
Dried
fleshy scale leaf
Bulbus
Lilii is collected in autumn. It is washed, slightly scalded in boiling water,
and dried in the sun. It is used unprepared or stir-baked with honey.
Properties & Taste: Sweet and
slightly cold.
Meridians: Lung and heart
Functions: 1. To moisten the lungs and
stop cough; 2. To clear heat in the heart and calm the mind.
Indications & Combinations:
1. Deficient yin of the lung with excessive
fire manifested as cough and hemoptysis. Lily bulb (Baihe) is used with
Scrophularia (Xuanshen), Tendrilled fritillary bulb (Chuanbeimu) and Fresh
rehmannia root (Shengdihuang) in the formula Baihe Gujin Tang.
2. The later stage of febrile diseases with
residual heat manifested as irritability, palpitations, insomnia and dreamful
sleep. Lily bulb (Baihe) is used with Anemarrhena rhizome (Zhimu) and Fresh
rehmannia root (Shengdihuang) in the formula Baihe Dihuang Tang.
Dosage: 10-30 g, decocted in water for
an oral dose.
Cautions & Contraindications: This
herb is contraindicated in cases of cough due to invasion by wind-cold or
diarrhea due to cold in the spleen and stomach.
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